We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROne should use common words to say uncommon things.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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The world is my idea.
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If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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